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Tokenization   -   Oct 09, 2026 Tokenization for Everything: Where Did We Actually Get?
Tokenization for Everything: Where Did We Actually Get?

Tokenization was supposed to disrupt global capital markets, but it ended in an unexpected compromise: permissionless rails carrying permissioned finance. A deep dive into SEC equity rules, European wholesale settlement, and why crypto’s plumbing is being absorbed to reinforce legacy finance.

Alex Harutunian
Oracles   -   Feb 28, 2026 Reputation Is Not Static. It Can Be Shorted On Ethos
Ethos reputations

Ethos turns credibility into an on-chain market. By blending XP-based participation, capital-backed vouching, and invite-bonded trust graphs, it attempts to price reputation itself. One year in, the experiment reveals both the promise—and the fragility—of financializing trust in crypto

Alex Harutunian
Blockchain   -   Feb 03, 2026 What Vitalik Buterin Wants To Change In Ethereum
Vitalik Buterin Ethereum improvement simplicity

Vitalik Buterin’s recent posts reflect a shift from idealistic decentralization toward pragmatic system design. Rather than rejecting Ethereum’s core principles, he questions where complexity, governance, and the current development path fail under real-world constraints.

Alex Harutunian
L1   -   Jan 14, 2026 Hyperliquid’s Vertical Evolution
Hyperliquid's vertically integrated ambition

Hyperliquid is evolving from a perp DEX into a vertically integrated financial stack. By launching its own L1, native stablecoin, and spot markets, it prioritizes market fit over ideology. Started on Arbitrum, its roadmap reveals a larger ambition: to become the global base layer for all trading.

Alex Harutunian
Layer1   -   Oct 16, 2025 Conflux: Blockchain Development Behind the Wall — and Beyond
Conflux: China’s State-Backed Bridge to the Blockchain World

While crypto remains banned, China’s state-backed blockchain ecosystem — led by Conflux — is expanding across Asia and into global finance. Conflux Network bridges China’s academic research, state strategy, and open blockchain innovation.

Alex Harutunian
Tokenization for Everything: Where Did We Actually Get?
Tokenization   -   Oct 09, 2026 Tokenization for Everything: Where Did We Actually Get?

Tokenization was supposed to disrupt global capital markets, but it ended in an unexpected compromise: permissionless rails carrying permissioned finance. A deep dive into SEC equity rules, European wholesale settlement, and why crypto’s plumbing is being absorbed to reinforce legacy finance.

Alex Harutunian
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Litigation   -   Oct 04, 2023 What Do We Know About the Upcoming Sam Bankman-Fried Trial?
Sam Bankman-Fried

Today, on October 4th, SBF will spend his first day in court almost one year after FTX collapse. He faces seven charges and if found guilty might spend his whole life in prison.

Sasha Markevich
Exchanges   -   Oct 03, 2023 Binance's September News: Belgium In, Russia Out [Or Maybe Not]
Binance is hard wae

Lately, Binance and its U.S. affiliate have faced multiple troubles partially connected to ongoing investigations by the SEC and CFTC. Let’s have a closer look at the latest setbacks and successes of the embattled exchange.

Sasha Markevich
Stablecoins   -   Oct 03, 2023 Crypto.com Partners PayPal to Become Preferred Platform for PYUSD
Crypto.com Partners PayPal to Become Preferred Platform for PYUSD

Crypto.com teams up with PayPal and Paxos to become a preferred PYUSD exchange as the novel stablecoin conquers markets.

Sasha Markevich
Ethereum   -   Oct 02, 2023 Ethereum's Holesky Testnet Relaunches Successfully After Initial Hiccup
Ethereum relaun

Ethereum's Holesky testnet, designed to replace the outdated Goerli, was relaunched successfully after an initial setback. Despite challenges, Ethereum's diverse development community remains robust, ensuring its competitive edge in the blockchain space.

Alexander Mardar
Newsletters   -   Oct 01, 2023 Sunday Review 01/10/2023
Observers.com Sunday review

The U.S. government has narrowly avoided another shutdown, after approving a short-term funding bill at the eleventh hour, late on Saturday night. While the rest of the world looks on in astonishment at the fact that partisan politics can so regularly hold such a major economy to ransom,

Jack Martin
Bitcoin   -   Sep 30, 2023 Argentina Is Leveraging The Blockchain To Do More Than Just Survive
Argentina Bitcoin Buenos Aires

Despite its prolonged economic crisis, Argentina is finding ways to prosper by using blockchain technology.

Eva Senzaj Pauram
Banks   -   Sep 30, 2023 Chase UK to ‘Protect’ Customers From Crypto by Blocking Payments
Chase UK to ‘Protect’ Customers From Crypto by Blocking Payments

Rumors that the bank also plans to block payments used to buy cigarettes, extreme sports equipment, and foreign trips to clinics offering Brazilian butt-lifts and/or euthanasia have so far not been confirmed.

Jack Martin
Stablecoins   -   Sep 30, 2023 Stable September. Circle's USDC Stablecoin Connects Blockchains
Stable September. Circle's USDC Stablecoin Connects Blockchains

Circle brings USDC stablecoin to Polkadot's Asset Hub parachain allongside five other blockchains to enable faster, cheaper transactions and multi-chain transfers via the new Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol.

Observers
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